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On the 1st J anuary, 1918, I again saw one near the same spot, and secured 
it, giving it to the Canterbury Museum. It was in full winter plumage. 
having none of the rusty breast-feathers which characterize the summer 
plumage. In February, 1919, I got another specimen, and on the 5th 
March, 1921, Mr. J. Fuller got one at Lake Ellesmere, giving it to the 
Canterbury Museum. The one first recorded (1902), which was sent by 
plumage, but the other three are in their winter plumage. 
Pisobia ruficollis (Pallas), 1776. Red-necked sandpiper. 
Trynga ruficollis Pallas, Reis. Russ. Reichs, 3, p. 100, 1716. Limonites 
ruficollis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. a vol. 24, p. 545, 1896, 
Buller, Suppl. Birds N.Z., vol. 1, p. 186, 1905. Pisobia minuta 
ruficollis Mathews and Tredale, Ibis for April, 1913, p. 260. 
Pisobia ruficollis Ridgway, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 50, pt. 8, 
. p. 290, 1919 
Records. — (1.) Edgar Е. Stead (January, pags igo Museum. 
(2.) Edgar F. Stead (22nd July, 1902): Canterbury Museum 
In the large suborder of the Limicolae there are шылу cases of two or 
more species which, while very different from one another in their summer 
plumage, are in their winter plumage very much alike. The little stint 
and the red- nes sandpiper form such a pair. Of almost the same 
size, and with very similar colouring in winter, they are yet readily 
separable in summer. It is therefore the more satisfactory that the one 
specimen of the red-necked sandpiper which we have in the Canterbury 
Museum is in nearly full summer plumage, so that there can be no doubt 
whatever of its identification. This bird I shot on the 22nd July, 1902, 
when it was in a large flock of banded dottrel. Earlier in the same year 
I had shot another bird for Lord Ranfurly, which was, I think, either this 
species or a little stint. Lord Ranfurly sent the specimen to the British 
Museum, and Mathews and Iredale, in their “ Т эшет» List of the Birds 
of New Zealand,” refer to it as having been med by Grant as Tringa 
subarquata, who noted that it had been first encod by Captain Hutton 
as a pectoral sandpiper (H eteropygia acuminata), and subsequently referred 
by him to the red- throated stint (Limonites ruficollis). In view n 
is curious that, as the specimen was read 
not reinvestigate for themselves. 
The specimen we have in the Canterbury Museum is well forward in 
its breeding-plumage, although it was shot in July ; and I thought at the 
time, and still think, that this bird would have nested here. 
Pisobia minuta (Leisler) Little stint. 
Tringa minuta Leisler, Nachtr. Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl., 1, p. 74, 
“1812. En ites minuta Sharpe, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., vol. 24, 
p. 538, 1896. Pisobia minuta Ridgway, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
Records.—(1.) T Flat; Otago (1902): Smyth collection, Dunedin 
(now E. J. cg Sa d hurch). (2) and (3). Edgar F. Stead: Canter- 
b 
В асет Sth February, 1910, I got at Lake Ellesmere a specimen of the 
little stint, which I presented to the Canterbury Museum, where it was 
